Jul 20, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
You can develop life skills that make you happier and less likely to suffer from depression. According to research co-led by Professor Andrew Steptoe, Professor of Psychology at University College of London, physical and mental health was better among people with the...
Jul 19, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
In the modern world it can be so easy to feel ragged and stretched thin as you are pulled in so many directions at once. This can leave you feeling disorientated and distracted, and from there you lose clarity and confidence about the right decisions to make as you...
Jul 18, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Like most people I receive a lot of emails and again like most people I notice the huge differences is style from the direct and abrupt to the flowery and verbose. And everything in between. As a flowery and verbose person I take more offence at the abrupt emails...
Jul 17, 2017 | Doug Strycharczyk, Leadership, Mental Toughness
According to Bersin by Deloitte, “employee engagement (by 2016) has become the top issue on the minds of business leaders, directing us to an entirely new model of management”. Firstly, we need to understand what Employee Engagement is, why it is growing in importance...
Jul 17, 2017 | Mental Toughness, Quotes
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open” — Frank Zappa
Jul 14, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
If there is one thing mentally tough people miss out on, its FOMO. FOMO, for the uninitiated is the Fear Of Missing Out, which according to the Urban Dictionary and other sources, is “a compulsive concern that one might miss an opportunity or satisfying event that may...
Jul 13, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
In a recent post we outlined the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and here we suggest 4 quick tips on how to increase your intrinsic, or self generated motivation. Being self motivated is such a powerful characteristic because with it you can...
Jul 12, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
It is rare these days to find someone in corporate and business life who is chilled and stress free. Everything is happening so quickly and it seems the harder we work and the more we cram into a day the further behind on our schedule we fall. I’m trying to find ways...
Jul 11, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Stress generally occurs when you are trying to think about and process more things than you have the capacity for. It is easy to think that ‘stress is stress’ but there are various types of stress and each should be managed differently. Dr Karl Albrecht is an...
Jul 7, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Visualisation, the forming a mental image of the day ahead, is now an important part of my ‘power up’ morning routine. I used to be prone to regular panic attacks, which were driven by a fear of failure, when faced with the uncertainty of the day ahead. Meetings,...
